Tootle."
The summons was not taken out, but Waymark's resolution suffered no
change. There was another interview between him and the principal,
from which he issued with the sum of six pounds ten in his pocket,
being half the quarter's salary. He had not applied for this, but
did not refuse it when it was offered. Seeing that the total amount
of cash previously in his possession was something less than five
shillings, he did wisely, perhaps, to compromise with his dignity,
and let Dr. Tootle come out of the situation with a certain show of
generosity.
CHAPTER XI
BY THE WAYSIDE
"So there ends another chapter. How many more to the end of the
story? How many more scenes till the farce is played out? There is
something flattering to one's vanity in this careless playing with
fate; it is edifying, moreover, to sot circumstances at defiance in
this way, now and then, to assert one's freedom. Freedom! What a
joke the word must be to whoever is pulling the wires and making us
poor puppets dance at his pleasure. Pity that we have to pay the
piper so heavily for our involuntary jigging!"
A passage from the letter Waymark wrote to his friend Casti, on the
evening when his school-work came to an end.
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